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From my August 26th column in Takimag.com, “The Social Construction of Black Self-Destruction:”
After Blake’s shooting, Democratic politicians immediately poured gasoline on the fire. Wisconsin governor Tony Evers tweeted:
While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.
The governor didn’t say one word against rioting.
Not surprisingly that night, bored young people invigorated by authority figures like the governor poured into Kenosha’s streets and burned much of the business district.
The next day, Joe Biden issued the following irresponsible statement, making no attempt to calm the situation and prevent additional rioting, not even in the interest of deterring the spread of COVID:
Yesterday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back as police attempted to restrain him from getting into his car. His children watched from inside the car and bystanders watched in disbelief. And this morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another Black American is a victim of excessive force. This calls for an immediate, full and transparent investigation and the officers must be held accountable.
These shots pierce the soul of our nation. Jill and I pray for Jacob’s recovery and for his children.
Equal justice has not been real for Black Americans and so many others. We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism.
“Systemic” is now used to mean unseeable, unmeasurable, unfalsifiable: in other words, nonexistent anti-science.
It is the urgent task before us. We must fight to honor the ideals laid in the original American promise, which we are yet to attain: that all men and women are created equal, but more importantly that they must be treated equally.
In the Democratic/media bubble, the endemic rioting since Memorial Day is unmentionable. It’s all just Peaceful Protesting that occasionally “intensifies.”
Then Monday night, following Biden’s reinforcement, the mob was back torching buildings, this time with perhaps more of a white Antifa cast. From the Racine County Eye:
Rioters take over Kenosha after police shooting
For the second night in a row, rioters took over the city by burning buildings, vandalizing businesses, and looting stores.
by Denise Lockwood, August 25th, 2020
KENOSHA, WI—Following the police shooting of Jacob Blake Sunday, the rioting and looting continued. Rioters set numerous buildings on fire, including the probation office, a furniture store, an apartment building, car lots, and a Family Dollar. People looted a Walgreen’s store, stole an ATM, blocked traffic, and stole gasoline from a nearby gas station to start fires.
Is much of this destruction being shown on television? I seldom watch national news on TV, but instead search out information that I find significant on the Web, so I have been surprised by how oblivious many less curious people seem to be about the pillaging of our cities this summer. The media’s attitude at present is obviously: If it’s not good for the Biden campaign, it’s not news.
But does Biden himself even know what’s going on outside his basement?
In Biden’s defense, he finally issued a plea to halt rioting on the third day of the Kenosha Riots, although there’s little evidence that it did any good by that point.
Eventually, all this led to the attack on the Kyle Rittenhouse by several Antifa members. The teenage marksman appears to have ended the rioting more or less single-handed, which is more than you can say for Joe Biden’s role in this sorry affair.
It appears that BLM activists broke the window in front of Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol and shot and killed Ashli Babbitt.
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.
https://redpilled.ca/the-best-of-the-best-diversity-hire-cop-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-was-hired-with-a-sole-bachelors-degree-in-physical-education-he-rakes-in-over-120k-a-year/
Take a look before it gets taken down, and make up your own mind.
Personnel is policy.
There are only about six or seven real agitators among the protesters. Three sorry Barney Fife looking guys are barring the door. Oddly, though, you later realize that a whole phalanx of body-armor clad stormtroopers are standing just out of the frame the whole time, doing nothing.
One guy in a fur hat is trying to get everyone to stand back. But a couple of the agitators keep saying to the cops, "C'mon bro, we just want to clear a path and get through." The cops eventually just look at each other and step out of the way to let them through for no particular reason.
About three guys start smashing the plexiglass window down. Then a black hand with a gun comes out from close around the corner inside the window. You can see more cops through the window on the inside, but they don't seem very concerned. A rando dude in a suit is just waddling down the hall like nothing is happening. And then the gunman just aims and very deliberately shoots the woman at close range.
Very weird. Especially the way all the cops were so nonchalant except for the one who was intent on killing someone.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/video-shows-fatal-shooting-of-ashli-babbitt-at-u-s-capitol/2491343/Replies: @El Dato, @Polistra, @wren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgeWB4deEI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gleiwitz_Incident__1432753610_26731-1-e1432754017227.jpgReplies: @wren
Mr. Rittenhouse was a US militiaman by statutory definition.
https://img.bestplaces.net/images/city/1701595_IL_Antioch.pngReplies: @Almost Missouri
Does the White House have a big basement to hide him in?
Mind you, the literary trope is to have the dementia victim in the attic.
"One Night Only! Joey B in Drag as 'Crazy' Jane Eyre"
(If only it were just one night)
Great piece, both the quoted original and your new remarks.
This is essential. They’ve trashed the language and are forever bending it to their aims. It’s important to point out exactly how and why.
My libbie friends and family refuse to use the word ‘riot’ in relation to anything that happened this past summer. But what happened last week? Oooh boy.
They are well on their way to being "good Germans".
The usual suspects are blaming VDare, among others, for the Capitol raid.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/500000-bitcoin-may-have-financed-groups-who-planned-capitol-assault-1561767%3famp=1
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.Replies: @wren, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @fnn, @Kronos, @Frank McGar
“Red Pilled” has several more articles on the shooter, assuming he is the shooter.
https://redpilled.ca/the-best-of-the-best-diversity-hire-cop-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-was-hired-with-a-sole-bachelors-degree-in-physical-education-he-rakes-in-over-120k-a-year/
Take a look before it gets taken down, and make up your own mind.
Personnel is policy.
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.Replies: @wren, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @fnn, @Kronos, @Frank McGar
Can’t understand why the nomenklatura are shrieking about the windows. In California thanks to Prop 47 all undocumented shopping below $950 is now misdemeanor/petty theft, i.e. optional $1k fine or optional 6 mo. county jail stint. Presumably the person who hit the Capitol cop apparently fatally with the fire extinguisher will be found and charged, but that happened outside the building, in D.C.’s urban playland.
The tear gas and kill-shot administered against the marauding 140 lbs woman certainly must have caused more damage in dollar terms to the holy temple facilities where our priests and/or gods reside.
‘It Was a Planned Attack.’ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says Looting Was Organized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enm_aAEm_dM
The political donation history of the Michigan Avenue merchants affected might make fascinating reading.
Thirty months for trespassing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67VbRYYbEQReplies: @Hibernian, @Inquiring Mind
Who/whom.
Trump’s impeachment for “inciting insurrection” really should put a chill down any politician’s spine. While impeachment isn’t a criminal proceeding, his words come nowhere close to meeting the Brandenburg standard for incitement under the First Amendment. My initial thoughts were of Obama’s remarks between the shooting of Philando Castile, and the murder of five Dallas police officers a few days later. Would Obama be liable under the standard Trump is being held to? These are issues that should be considered if this impeachment ever comes to trial.
Of course, no one will think of any of this. Trump is different because reasons. So just shut up about it.
1. By censoring Trump, it seems that they are assuming a de facto responsibility to police inflammatory language. Therefore, any time there is an incident which results in death or property damage, and said incident is discussed on Twitter, can people who suffered physical injury or property damage sue Twitter for failing to suppress speech which resulted in criminal behavior? In particular, if some gangbanger is shot after inflammatory Twitter postings, can the survivors play Lawsuit Roulette with Jack Dorsey?
2. After censoring Trump, Twitter stock plummeted. Any securities lawyers out there want to go after a shareholder lawsuit based on Twitter inflicting financial damages through gross violation of their terms of service?Replies: @Thomas
Biden has no soul. Perhaps that’s due to a calcified pineal gland. But more likely due to having parasitized the life force of the nation for the 60 years he’s been in government. We will hear him bloviate endlessly in that weird speech pattern that can only be learned in the US Senate.
And after torturing innocent Americans with Biden, we will be forced to listen to Kamala cackling and accusing everyone of being white supremists. Americans don’t deserve this kind of political terror being unleashed on them.
Biden strikes me that same way--completely empty. A doofus, who has been a loathsome parasite his entire life and is absolutely empty of everything--but his parasitism.
A republican government simply should not be full of these people. It is supposed to be compose of actual productive men who take time from their normal lives to represent their fellow citizens.Replies: @wren, @Just another serf
My libbie friends and family refuse to use the word 'riot' in relation to anything that happened this past summer. But what happened last week? Oooh boy.Replies: @anon, @Hypnotoad666
My libbie friends and family refuse to use the word ‘riot’ in relation to anything that happened this past summer.
They are well on their way to being “good Germans”.
Rachel Rollins, the DA for Suffolk County, Massachusetts (covering Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop). Irish-American father and immigrant Barbadian-American mother.
I'm a little more than half Irish myself so Rachel and I have something in common.
These speeches are amazing in their 0-information-content with sonorous appeal to emotional reaction of the masses (the “we” and “the nation” who are surprised “yet again” by the immense wrongs that the enemies of the people rain down on it constantly as the innocents powerlessly “watch”).
They are only boring in that the same schemata are used. The usual bullshit of “holding someone to account” for perceived wrongs as the schoolmarm of the universe always makes an appearance.
Who exactly writes these things? Recycled Japanese from the 30s? From the Mukden Incident to the Kenosha Incident…
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.Replies: @wren, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @fnn, @Kronos, @Frank McGar
Below is the best view I’ve seen so far. The most striking thing is that heavily armed cops are everywhere but they are so unbelievably pathetic.
There are only about six or seven real agitators among the protesters. Three sorry Barney Fife looking guys are barring the door. Oddly, though, you later realize that a whole phalanx of body-armor clad stormtroopers are standing just out of the frame the whole time, doing nothing.
One guy in a fur hat is trying to get everyone to stand back. But a couple of the agitators keep saying to the cops, “C’mon bro, we just want to clear a path and get through.” The cops eventually just look at each other and step out of the way to let them through for no particular reason.
About three guys start smashing the plexiglass window down. Then a black hand with a gun comes out from close around the corner inside the window. You can see more cops through the window on the inside, but they don’t seem very concerned. A rando dude in a suit is just waddling down the hall like nothing is happening. And then the gunman just aims and very deliberately shoots the woman at close range.
Very weird. Especially the way all the cops were so nonchalant except for the one who was intent on killing someone.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/video-shows-fatal-shooting-of-ashli-babbitt-at-u-s-capitol/2491343/
If this was a movie, I would expect a supernatural evil presence (possibly the reincarnation of Ruby) to make itself known by mid-time.
And it's not like Glock guy could not see SWAT guy, he was firing in his direction.
https://i.postimg.cc/KYhSDpxY/recasting-manos.jpg
I can't really speak to that, other than saying, yes, it is very odd.
That part is like the "dominion switching votes" angle to this affair, in that eventually perhaps they will have proof that there was a genuine false flag conspiracy planned at the highest levels by the left, but we haven't seen it yet.
(I find it strange that another of the filmmakers on the scene that day happened to be nancy pelosi's son in law. What are the odds?)
On a lower level, this guy sullivan boasting that he was pretending to only be filming when he was actually one of the few busting windows (and one of the first on the scene) is like the folks kicking out observers and covering the windows in Detroit while they counted ballots, or pulling suitcases of ballots out from under the table in Georgia when they thought no one was looking. We have seen the evidence.
It is stunning that the guy who shot Ashli Babbit is the same guy who let the shooting of Steve Scalese occur and a guy who not only proudly supported blm, but threatened to kill Trump supporters on facebook, even though he worked as a member of the Capitol police.
blm/antifa were major instigators of the violence that did occur, on BOTH sides.
The instigator (but he had a trump hat on when he was in the Capitol breaking windows):
https://i2.wp.com/mynewscorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/antifa-john-740x467-1.jpg
The shooter:
https://i.postimg.cc/528MWmC8/i1-wp-com-redpilled-ca-3.jpg
And they blame trump...
My libbie friends and family refuse to use the word 'riot' in relation to anything that happened this past summer. But what happened last week? Oooh boy.Replies: @anon, @Hypnotoad666
When I hear them use the word “systemic,” my mind just registers it as “imaginary.”
There are only about six or seven real agitators among the protesters. Three sorry Barney Fife looking guys are barring the door. Oddly, though, you later realize that a whole phalanx of body-armor clad stormtroopers are standing just out of the frame the whole time, doing nothing.
One guy in a fur hat is trying to get everyone to stand back. But a couple of the agitators keep saying to the cops, "C'mon bro, we just want to clear a path and get through." The cops eventually just look at each other and step out of the way to let them through for no particular reason.
About three guys start smashing the plexiglass window down. Then a black hand with a gun comes out from close around the corner inside the window. You can see more cops through the window on the inside, but they don't seem very concerned. A rando dude in a suit is just waddling down the hall like nothing is happening. And then the gunman just aims and very deliberately shoots the woman at close range.
Very weird. Especially the way all the cops were so nonchalant except for the one who was intent on killing someone.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/video-shows-fatal-shooting-of-ashli-babbitt-at-u-s-capitol/2491343/Replies: @El Dato, @Polistra, @wren
It’s true that the hovering black hand was completely absurd.
If this was a movie, I would expect a supernatural evil presence (possibly the reincarnation of Ruby) to make itself known by mid-time.
And it’s not like Glock guy could not see SWAT guy, he was firing in his direction.
The term “incite” is not a good legal term, as Andy McCarthy explains in NRO. Like “insurrection”, it being used to do double duty. Insurrection actually means something as innocuous as simply breaking the law, but makes people think of coups d’etat. So, it is being used to describe the Capitol riot because it creates a false, hysteria-inducing impression of the situation while being a defensible use of the word. Similarly, “incite” is a fairly innocuous thing that sounds like a synonym for “call for” or “encourage”, so it can be used to smear Trump with impunity.
Why was Joe Biden sticking up for a rapist? Doesn’t he believe all women?*
* Naturally I am 100% aware that Biden didn’t write that. Some adviser wrote it. The real Joe Biden, the authentic Biden, would shoot Blake himself and laugh about it to reporters over a Coors lite.
But no prayers for the violently assaulted girlfriend?
https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/dwLbEaCfDGUK-svY_YlBw3qPWco=/1400x932/smart/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/V4TP4JJ3IFGBLAFVFKE5DEYSXU.jpg
There is no “Antifa”, remember? Call them what they are– rank-and-file Democrats.
Kenosha’s Democratic state senator ran unopposed.
Bordering metropolitan Minnesota:
The magnificently-named Gae Magnafici (R) and Supreme Solar Allah (D) were reelected to the Assembly.
Anyone have cities’ presidential votes? (Paleo? You still here?) Green Bay’s Brown went marginally for Trump– the only NFL county to do so– and Madison’s Dane 3-1 for Biden. But I can’t find how these cities proper voted.
Two counties flipped this year. Sauk is part Driftless (which Trump mostly took from Democrats), part tourist (circusy Baraboo and a piece of the Dells), and increasingly Madison commuters. Door is tourists and boutiques. Outside the Madison-Milwaukee axis, Democratic counties are college towns, Lake Superior lefties, and an Indian reservation.
Trump slipped in Joe McCarthy’s Fox Valley:
But not a Wisconsin militiaman. He’s a Sucker, not a Badger.
There are only about six or seven real agitators among the protesters. Three sorry Barney Fife looking guys are barring the door. Oddly, though, you later realize that a whole phalanx of body-armor clad stormtroopers are standing just out of the frame the whole time, doing nothing.
One guy in a fur hat is trying to get everyone to stand back. But a couple of the agitators keep saying to the cops, "C'mon bro, we just want to clear a path and get through." The cops eventually just look at each other and step out of the way to let them through for no particular reason.
About three guys start smashing the plexiglass window down. Then a black hand with a gun comes out from close around the corner inside the window. You can see more cops through the window on the inside, but they don't seem very concerned. A rando dude in a suit is just waddling down the hall like nothing is happening. And then the gunman just aims and very deliberately shoots the woman at close range.
Very weird. Especially the way all the cops were so nonchalant except for the one who was intent on killing someone.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/video-shows-fatal-shooting-of-ashli-babbitt-at-u-s-capitol/2491343/Replies: @El Dato, @Polistra, @wren
A critical insight. And another thing which the MSM deliberately have 180° wrong
Who, whom?
Mind you, the literary trope is to have the dementia victim in the attic.Replies: @Polistra
Too lazy to do up a graphic of the poster, but
“One Night Only! Joey B in Drag as ‘Crazy’ Jane Eyre”
(If only it were just one night)
There are only about six or seven real agitators among the protesters. Three sorry Barney Fife looking guys are barring the door. Oddly, though, you later realize that a whole phalanx of body-armor clad stormtroopers are standing just out of the frame the whole time, doing nothing.
One guy in a fur hat is trying to get everyone to stand back. But a couple of the agitators keep saying to the cops, "C'mon bro, we just want to clear a path and get through." The cops eventually just look at each other and step out of the way to let them through for no particular reason.
About three guys start smashing the plexiglass window down. Then a black hand with a gun comes out from close around the corner inside the window. You can see more cops through the window on the inside, but they don't seem very concerned. A rando dude in a suit is just waddling down the hall like nothing is happening. And then the gunman just aims and very deliberately shoots the woman at close range.
Very weird. Especially the way all the cops were so nonchalant except for the one who was intent on killing someone.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/video-shows-fatal-shooting-of-ashli-babbitt-at-u-s-capitol/2491343/Replies: @El Dato, @Polistra, @wren
Yes, many commenters on the sites I linked note how staged the whole thing appears, and how people’s behavior just doesn’t make sense.
I can’t really speak to that, other than saying, yes, it is very odd.
That part is like the “dominion switching votes” angle to this affair, in that eventually perhaps they will have proof that there was a genuine false flag conspiracy planned at the highest levels by the left, but we haven’t seen it yet.
(I find it strange that another of the filmmakers on the scene that day happened to be nancy pelosi’s son in law. What are the odds?)
On a lower level, this guy sullivan boasting that he was pretending to only be filming when he was actually one of the few busting windows (and one of the first on the scene) is like the folks kicking out observers and covering the windows in Detroit while they counted ballots, or pulling suitcases of ballots out from under the table in Georgia when they thought no one was looking. We have seen the evidence.
It is stunning that the guy who shot Ashli Babbit is the same guy who let the shooting of Steve Scalese occur and a guy who not only proudly supported blm, but threatened to kill Trump supporters on facebook, even though he worked as a member of the Capitol police.
blm/antifa were major instigators of the violence that did occur, on BOTH sides.
The instigator (but he had a trump hat on when he was in the Capitol breaking windows):
The shooter:
And they blame trump…
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.Replies: @wren, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @fnn, @Kronos, @Frank McGar
War Correspondent Michael Yon: Antifa Tactics Seen in Hong Kong & Capitol Protest
Of course, no one will think of any of this. Trump is different because reasons. So just shut up about it.Replies: @Dmon
I’m not a lawyer, but is there a way to get at Twitter through lawfare? I can think of two possibilities:
1. By censoring Trump, it seems that they are assuming a de facto responsibility to police inflammatory language. Therefore, any time there is an incident which results in death or property damage, and said incident is discussed on Twitter, can people who suffered physical injury or property damage sue Twitter for failing to suppress speech which resulted in criminal behavior? In particular, if some gangbanger is shot after inflammatory Twitter postings, can the survivors play Lawsuit Roulette with Jack Dorsey?
2. After censoring Trump, Twitter stock plummeted. Any securities lawyers out there want to go after a shareholder lawsuit based on Twitter inflicting financial damages through gross violation of their terms of service?
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.Replies: @wren, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @fnn, @Kronos, @Frank McGar
Looks kinda like the “Gleiwitz Incident” as time goes on. Antifa members disguised as Trump supporters to create intentional backlash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-cnn-npr-reporter-jade-sacker-embedded-antifa-leader-john-sullivan-siege-us-capitol-cheered-inciting-riot-video/
Considering that what he did may have led to Ashli Babbit's death, the dropping of any discussion of biden's election fraud in the senate and the cancellation of trump and anyone who supported him, I'd say it was a pretty successful operation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_IncidentReplies: @Kronos
* Naturally I am 100% aware that Biden didn't write that. Some adviser wrote it. The real Joe Biden, the authentic Biden, would shoot Blake himself and laugh about it to reporters over a Coors lite.But no prayers for the violently assaulted girlfriend?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Nostalgia?
https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-police-agent-david-bailey-who-killed-ashli-babbitt-was-the-same-officer-that-let-steve-scalise-get-shot-in-2017-exclusive-evidence/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/caught-video-antifa-protester-john-sullivan-brags-posing-trump-supporter-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
If these articles are correct, and they certainly seem to be, the official narrative is 180 degrees wrong.Replies: @wren, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @fnn, @Kronos, @Frank McGar
This article by Blumenthal paints a picture of Sullivan as an attention-seeking agent of chaos. The more you dig into him, the cloudier it gets. I wonder how many of the Capitol stormers, especially the ones inciting the action, were part of the new breed of social media clout chasers. It’s all about getting that shock content and then getting people to follow you and give you money. One thing for sure, this was anything but an insurrection. Could it be that a good chunk of the people storming the Capitol weren’t for Trump or antifa, but rather just live streamers looking to burn the world down and capture the moment in order to get more views? Somehow that makes it even worse.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/chaos-agent-right-wing-us-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter/
Biden has forgotten that he is supposed to pretend that race doesn’t exist.
But the police really cracked down on the BLM protesters, unlike the privileged white protesters at the Capitol. The proof is everywhere https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/14/chicago-police-officers-supervisors-suspended-lounging-congressman-bobby-rush-office-june-looting/?fbclid=IwAR0czVhKIVstQOSiUi8Tm8wBQvnEoczr_GN5ZXPBj8krfRMKhGa2BUKg9hc
Sounds plausible.
That alone removes about 50 plausibility points in my book if it is the case.
I blame him for the tragedy in Libya.
Seems plausible to me.Replies: @Lot
Isn’t Max Blumenthal Sidney Blumenthal’s son?
That alone removes about 50 plausibility points in my book if it is the case.
I blame him for the tragedy in Libya.
Seems plausible to me.
His father was a corporate centrist bootlicker and fixer for the Clintons.
With windows, it’s Whose/Whom’s.
‘It Was a Planned Attack.’ Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says Looting Was Organized
The political donation history of the Michigan Avenue merchants affected might make fascinating reading.
At Least 12 CPD Officers And Supervisors Suspended After Lounging In Congressman’s Office Amid Looting, Sources Say
Thirty months for trespassing?
Irresponsible.
No one brought the donuts.
That alone removes about 50 plausibility points in my book if it is the case.
I blame him for the tragedy in Libya.
Seems plausible to me.Replies: @Lot
Max is a far left documentary maker who focuses on pro-Islam, pro-Communism/Chavez, and anti-Israel content.
His father was a corporate centrist bootlicker and fixer for the Clintons.
1. By censoring Trump, it seems that they are assuming a de facto responsibility to police inflammatory language. Therefore, any time there is an incident which results in death or property damage, and said incident is discussed on Twitter, can people who suffered physical injury or property damage sue Twitter for failing to suppress speech which resulted in criminal behavior? In particular, if some gangbanger is shot after inflammatory Twitter postings, can the survivors play Lawsuit Roulette with Jack Dorsey?
2. After censoring Trump, Twitter stock plummeted. Any securities lawyers out there want to go after a shareholder lawsuit based on Twitter inflicting financial damages through gross violation of their terms of service?Replies: @Thomas
No. Section 230 specifically immunizes them from that sort of claim, which is what it was intended to do.
Courts reviewing the decisions of a corporation’s board in the U.S. are guided by the “business judgment rule,” which essentially requires a showing that the directors breached their fiduciary duties to the corporation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule) It’s a fairly high bar for shareholder plaintiffs to clear and it defers a great deal to the judgment of the directors. Naturally, Twitter is incorporated in Delaware, the law of which is notorious for the broad deference it grants to corporate directors.
Paul Singer tried to buy his way into Twitter and force Jack Dorsey out as CEO last year. He didn’t succeed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-elliott-strike-truce-that-leaves-ceo-dorsey-in-place-11583758773
If some of the woke prepared to contemplate throwing their allies under the bus to preserve 230 then that's enough argument for me to say get rid of 230. It's obviously very important to them.
Unfortunately, an effect of the Left-Media-Complex's language distortion field (e.g. "speech=violence") combined with the activist judiciary rewriting legislation from the bench is that now Section 230 does more or less the opposite of its intended purpose: pornography is as widely available as ever, but internet platforms have a free hand to restrict everything else!
All is not quite lost. There were a couple of semi-sane court rulings that stripped penny-ante defendants of Section 230 protection for relatively minor editorializing, but no one has been able to get that logic to apply to the big media monopolies. Jared Taylor had a pretty solid case, and then ... weird stuff happened.
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Putting an end to riots is a risky business these days.
While I know this line of reasoning will go precisely nowhere anytime soon given the current state of USG…
The Democrats are impeaching Trump for insurrection (or some legal variant that I’m too dense to understand), in part to ban him from public office in the future. Let’s pretend that’s fair. Couldn’t the same line of reasoning be used against Joe Biden for even greater support of the BLM insurrection? And Kamala Harris? And Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, etc…? And the Press? And Woke Capital? And Academia? And Big Tech? And the Democratic Party as a whole? Do they really want to go down this road if there’s even a non-trivial chance of a lose of control, say if interest rates approach historical norms and Washington can’t just take out $2 trillion loans like candy anymore? Or is this a thought that just never entered their heads, aside from on the 6th?
By the way, a few years ago I think that Steve had a theory that the head of the Deep State was most likely the visible head of government. I think that this was in reference to Turkey. Does this mean that Joe Biden is the real head of the Deep State? It would explain so much and yet leave so many more questions.
https://img.bestplaces.net/images/city/1701595_IL_Antioch.pngReplies: @Almost Missouri
It’s a Federal law, not a state law.
(yeah, i know, you wanted to use the Sucker/Badger joke.)
On the tech news site I follow, the woke posters get very agitated at any suggestion section 230 be repealed or amended. One or two of them have even (who knows after what internal struggle) offered the sop that if we’ll just overlook the coordinated tech giants’ actions of the past week, then maybe one or two BLM/Antifa protests did get a bit too high-spirited and maybe one or two arsonists and looters ought to have been punished after all. (This, after months of insisting that there weren’t any riots and anyway it was all white supremacists doing that.) They don’t state the deal quite that openly, of course.
If some of the woke prepared to contemplate throwing their allies under the bus to preserve 230 then that’s enough argument for me to say get rid of 230. It’s obviously very important to them.
•Dolt
And after torturing innocent Americans with Biden, we will be forced to listen to Kamala cackling and accusing everyone of being white supremists. Americans don’t deserve this kind of political terror being unleashed on them.Replies: @AnotherDad
Just another serf, that’s an excellent way of putting this observation.
Biden strikes me that same way–completely empty. A doofus, who has been a loathsome parasite his entire life and is absolutely empty of everything–but his parasitism.
A republican government simply should not be full of these people. It is supposed to be compose of actual productive men who take time from their normal lives to represent their fellow citizens.
Parasite is right.
https://youtu.be/7lA3oOo1oZc
If you worked for any number of retail businesses, you would be subject to a drug test. Not for anyone in government though. Biden is especially devoid of any principles the ordinary person might relate to.
Biden strikes me that same way--completely empty. A doofus, who has been a loathsome parasite his entire life and is absolutely empty of everything--but his parasitism.
A republican government simply should not be full of these people. It is supposed to be compose of actual productive men who take time from their normal lives to represent their fellow citizens.Replies: @wren, @Just another serf
I once heard more of Biden in his own words in this leaked conversation, but i can’t find it now.
Parasite is right.
At least a Missourian would get it.
We need to build more mental hospitals.
Foucault having a decent point is due to Broken Clock Theory. This was, after all, the guy who said that AIDS affecting primarily blacks and gays was a “delusion” invented by “American racists and puritans” before losing his gay life to it. The silliest of the Clever Sillies.
But the larger point, that all this woke propaganda we are forcibly marinated in is probably influencing blacks to assume personal legal invincibility, is perfectly demonstrated by a story at CWB Chicago today. A POC stole a tow truck, and when the truck’s owner pulled a gun on him, the thief called 911. Of course, he faces charges. It’s likely that it never occurred to him that he could ever be hampered in stealing, because he’s never heard of that happening. You see, you want, you take. The new entitlement.
Biden strikes me that same way--completely empty. A doofus, who has been a loathsome parasite his entire life and is absolutely empty of everything--but his parasitism.
A republican government simply should not be full of these people. It is supposed to be compose of actual productive men who take time from their normal lives to represent their fellow citizens.Replies: @wren, @Just another serf
I believe he’s functional only because they have various substances they administer to him before appearances.
If you worked for any number of retail businesses, you would be subject to a drug test. Not for anyone in government though. Biden is especially devoid of any principles the ordinary person might relate to.
Welllll, Section 230 was intended to protect internet service providers who block obscene content from liability. One of the ways you can tell is that the title of Seciton 230 is “PROTECTION FOR PRIVATE BLOCKING AND SCREENING OF OFFENSIVE MATERIAL”. Another way you can tell is that the Secton 230 was part of the “COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT” and not, say, the “MAKING EDITORS LIABILITY-FREE ACT”. A third way is if you can remember all the way back to the late 1990s, the big social/political/legislative concern re The Internet was that it was making pornography widely available and ISPs said they couldn’t do anything about it because the Common Carrier standard meant they had to deliver everything irrespective of content. So the whole purpose of the Communications Decency Act was to get ISPs to block/filter/reduce pornography without exposing the ISPs to editorial liability for it. And finally a fourth way to tell this is just to read the Act (which apparently no one does anymore), the text of which states plainly that it protects service providers who restrict “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing” material. If you restrict material because you disagree with it (e.g., the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine or the legitimacy of an election result), that’s not “obscene” and Section 230 isn’t protecting you.
Unfortunately, an effect of the Left-Media-Complex’s language distortion field (e.g. “speech=violence”) combined with the activist judiciary rewriting legislation from the bench is that now Section 230 does more or less the opposite of its intended purpose: pornography is as widely available as ever, but internet platforms have a free hand to restrict everything else!
All is not quite lost. There were a couple of semi-sane court rulings that stripped penny-ante defendants of Section 230 protection for relatively minor editorializing, but no one has been able to get that logic to apply to the big media monopolies. Jared Taylor had a pretty solid case, and then … weird stuff happened.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gleiwitz_Incident__1432753610_26731-1-e1432754017227.jpgReplies: @wren
Now it appears that the blm/antifa guy’s partner was a journalist with cnn/npr, which she didn’t mention when they were on with Anderson Cooper or something successfully peddling their false narrative.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-cnn-npr-reporter-jade-sacker-embedded-antifa-leader-john-sullivan-siege-us-capitol-cheered-inciting-riot-video/
Considering that what he did may have led to Ashli Babbit’s death, the dropping of any discussion of biden’s election fraud in the senate and the cancellation of trump and anyone who supported him, I’d say it was a pretty successful operation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident
(I believe Matt Christman created the term.)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ABA5RQyx0Kw/maxresdefault.jpg
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-cnn-npr-reporter-jade-sacker-embedded-antifa-leader-john-sullivan-siege-us-capitol-cheered-inciting-riot-video/
Considering that what he did may have led to Ashli Babbit's death, the dropping of any discussion of biden's election fraud in the senate and the cancellation of trump and anyone who supported him, I'd say it was a pretty successful operation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_IncidentReplies: @Kronos
It looks like a 9/11 bum rush. Scare the Boomers to enact “Patriot Act II: Electric Boogaloo” domestic edition.
(I believe Matt Christman created the term.)
Is Rachel’s Dad a relative of the Irish twins on the Boston FD who got away for many years with claiming to be Black, based on a photo of a “dusky” female ancestor, until they were outed and fired?
I’m a little more than half Irish myself so Rachel and I have something in common.
Thirty months for trespassing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67VbRYYbEQReplies: @Hibernian, @Inquiring Mind
A SWAT team and tossing of the personal residence, for a trespasser.
Thirty months for trespassing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67VbRYYbEQReplies: @Hibernian, @Inquiring Mind
I am with Mayor Lightfoot on this.
Irresponsible.
No one brought the donuts.
I’m not sure the rioters were hanging on Biden’s every word.
Oh, but my leftist contacts on Facebook assure me that this was done by “right wing provocateurs.” It’s a proven fact.
But the larger point, that all this woke propaganda we are forcibly marinated in is probably influencing blacks to assume personal legal invincibility, is perfectly demonstrated by a story at CWB Chicago today. A POC stole a tow truck, and when the truck’s owner pulled a gun on him, the thief called 911. Of course, he faces charges. It’s likely that it never occurred to him that he could ever be hampered in stealing, because he’s never heard of that happening. You see, you want, you take. The new entitlement.Replies: @Fidelios Automata
He also believed in diddling young boys. I guess we have to cancel the pendulum.